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13 years ago

Remote Update over PCI Express

Hi, I'm currently developing a device which is connected to a PC over PCIe. My device has a JTAG connector which is planned to be used for an initial programming. But when the Device is in its ...
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13 years ago

If you have 'nor' flash, then you ought to be able to write/erase it by giving the PCIe avalon master access to the flash (much the same as giving it access to any other avalon slave) and writing suitable adriver and application for the host.

The same is probably true of 'nand' flash - but the sequences are much more complex.

NFI how you get the fpga to load from an alternate offset into the flash though.